Re: the mystery of <ctrl-d>

Bill Pursell said:
Keith Thompson wrote:
Bill Pursell writes:
chandanlinster wrote:

exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);

It seems weird to exit() here instead of simply returning a
value...

[...]

Why? Within the main() function, "exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)': and
"return EXIT_SUCCESS;" are (almost) exactly equivalent.

Just because it seems odd. It seems cleaner to return
than to exit, but there's no reason for that other than
aesthetics.

Al Balmer already pointed out that a good compiler will diagnose the
absence of a return statement from a function declared as returning a
value.

exit() feels like something that should be
reserved for an error condition.

I wouldn't dream of using it for that purpose. That's what:

return EXIT_FAILURE;

is for. In fact, I can't think of any use whatsoever for exit().

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